Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

—Evelyn Underhill

About Evelyn Underhill

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Evelyn Underhill (6 December 1875 – 15 June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism, published in 1911.

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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

—Evelyn Underhill

More quotations tagged with “evil”

I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

—Edmund Burke

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

—Blaise Pascal

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

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